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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-22

n9r The only safe obedience is a
prompt, implicit, and exact confor-
nifty to Gods command. No part of
his word can be unheeded without
risk; we may run from one peril to
another. A divided heart is like the
"double" eye, and singleness of Wis.,
ion. A double-minded man is un-
stable in all his ways.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-22

R9 When religion comes to a neigh
borhood the first to receive it are the
women. Some say it is because they
are weak-minded. We say it is be-
cause they have quicker perception
of what is right, more ardent affec-
ton, and capacity for sublimer emo
tiOn.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-22

The ONE RULE.-And after all,
it is better for men to stand on their
own individuality, each make his
own contract at his own price and on
his own responsibility, and if one
excel another in skill or industry,
let him be paid accordingly, paid &C.
cording to what he does. This is
honest and fair. Besides it will tend
to stimulate men to excel and in the
main there will be better work and
better pay. The interests of capital
and labor can never be separated.
They should realize their mutual de-
pendence and ever move in harmo-
ny. One is as honorable and as use
full as the other, and neither should
despise the other. If capitalist
should have no more sense of propri-
ETY. than to vaunt himself on his pos
sessions and suppose himself to be
above and better than Others, he
should be taught that money and
brains are not identical; and that the
one nor the other, nor the two COM
bined constitute true manliness, hon
or, justice, or integrity. And if a
laborer becomes jealous, querulous
and fretful, let him remember that
he is working against his own inter-
ests. In both cases the parties are
injuring themselves as well as each
other.
There is one rule, and only one,
by which such difference can be just
ly and safely settled, that is, "As ye
would that men should do to you, do
We even 80 Them" That will right
it all up.-&. Louis Advocate.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-22
4 BIG GAME OF POKER.

began running on the Mississippi
River fifty-tWo years ago. l haye,
of course, seen great amount of
gambling on the river, but never
saw any shooting or stabbing over a
game of cards. 1 have seen a good
many big games of cards. A game
long talked about on the river was
that played by Gov. George Poindex-
ter, of Mississippi. Iknew him well,
but did not see the game. At one
time he was Fund Commissioner, or
something of that kind, for Missis-
sippi. He had business in New York
to negotiate money on bonds, osten-
sibly for internal Improvements in
Mississippi. He was returning from
that city and had a large sum of
money with him. 1t was along in
autumn, the season when the Ohio is
always very low. He left Louisville
on a small stern-Wheel boat, the only
kind that could run as the water was
not over thirty inches deep on the
bars. Three gamblers took passage
at Louisville on the same boat. They
knew Poindexter's fondness for cards,
that he would play high, and they
had made up plot to clean him out.
In those days they played poker with
twenty cards-the ace, king, queen,
lack, and ten of each suit. The boat
was several days in getting from
Louisville to Cairo, and PoindeXter
and the three sharks were busy at
play. Then they usually played
without limit, and the result was,
the gamblers, having played their
fish long enough were about to take
him in. They had all their money
on the table. PoindeXter had very
poor hand, and one of the gamblers,
of course, had the winning hand.
Two of the gamblers dropped out,
and the other, making a heavy bet,
piled up his last dollar. The Cover
nor said he didn't have money enough
there to call him, but he thought he
might be able to borrow some of a
friend. "Very WE'LL" said the gam
bier, "I'll give you just ten minutes
to raise the money" Poindexter
went about trying to borrow of the
passengers, and then went to the clerk
of the boat. The amount he asked
for was nearly as much as the boat
would have sold for, and the clerk
had no such sum on hand even to
lend to Gov. Poindexter. The latter
then went to his stateroom, where
he had an old carpet-sack with
trusty servant guarding it, and re-
turned to the gaming table, followed
bv the darky with the carpet-sack on
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-22

n9 Work, says one who is accus-
toned to it, is the true philosophers
stone, whether you handle pick or
a pen, a wheelborrow or set Of
books, digging, ditching or editing a
newspaper.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-22

BEATS A FISH SToRY.-You may
talk about your fish stories and your
snake stories, but the following bird
story, which we get from good au-
therity, lays them all in the shade.
In an oak tree in certain yard in
Orangeburg a mocking bird built
nest and went to setting. After
while the nest was discovered by
boy, who climbed up the tree and
looked into the nest. This intrusion
was witnessed by the birds from a
neighboring tree, and who, coming
to the conclusion that they had bet
ter move, actually took the nest be-
tween them and flew with it over
hundred yards away to another tree
where they are now quietly setting
on the same two eggs the nest had in
it before it was moved. The nest
was not broken nor was either of the
eggs hurt by the REMOVAL -Orange-
burQ Times Democrat.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-22

sg The heavens declare the glory
of God, but the gospel makes known
his love.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-22

A MUCH DEBATED QUESTION
An old legend asserts that scorpion,
when placed within a ring of red
hot embers, will, after futile effort
to pass the fiery circle, deliberately
commit suicide by singing itself in
the head. Eminent scientific men
have often disagreed concerning the
truthfulness of the assertion, and
many chapters have been written on
it. The subject has lately been thor
oughly investigated by Prof. A: G.
Bourne, of Madras, who finds that
the greatest effect of scorpion poison
upon a scorpion is slight sluggish
ness, and that death within fire.
ring must be due to heat. Sir
Joseph Fayer had already shown
that the poison of the deadly cobra
will not affect cobra,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-22

REMNANT OF THE MoDOCs.-The
ModOc tribe of Indians are fast dis
appearing from the face of the earth.
Since their removal to the Indian
territory their ranks have been great
ly thinned by the grim visitor. One
of the fighting chiefs of this blood
thirsty band, Bogus Charley, when
asked several years ago how the
tribe was progressing in the territory,
pointed pathetically to the Indian
burying ground, and said, in broken
English: "Only hummer; all over
there" Charley himself was short
time after gathered to his fathers,
he having died in LaGrande about
six years ago while on a visit to his
sister at Walla Walla.-La Grande
(OreQOn) Gazette.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-22
OLD AGE.

Dean Bradley, successor OF Stanley
in the deanery of Westminster, tells
an anecdote of him as he neared his
sixtieth year. He was travelling in
Germany on Rhine steamer, and
getting acquainted with a boy, (he
loved children,) the boy asked him
his age, which being answered, he
said, "Why, all your life is over"
NO" said the dean, "the best is
yet to come"
"You must be on the wrong side
of sixty" said one acquaintance to
another.
"No," he replied, 81 am on the
right side." Old age is cherries
enough to one lacking faith in God
and Christ; but bright and divinest
hopes when one has for his portion
the Christ, whom to know with the
Father is eternal life. Let every
man mourn as old age creeps upon
him if he be without faith in the
Holy One. Let every man rejoice
as age comes upon him, if he trusts
in Him who said, "Because I live,
We shall live" Life here is only the
state of infancy.
A plain London lighterman, only
navigator on the Thames, was in
the Abbey, standing before the mon
ument of John Wesley, and as he
talked with the dean, knowing he
had been to Palestine, said, 1T must
have been beautiful to have walked
where the Saviour walked" EYES,"
and with a sanity look, he said,
"Beautiful to walk in the steps of
the Saviour" Stanley's words, as
he spoke of death, are so beautiful
we quote them: "There the soul
finds itself on the mountain ridge
overlooking the unknown future !;
our company before is gone; the
kinsfolk and friends of many years
are passed over the dark river and
we are left alone with God. We
know not in the shadow of the night
who it is that touches us-We feel
only that the everlasting arms are
closing us in; the twilight of the
morning breaks, we are bid to de-
part in peace, for by a strength not
our own we have prevailed, and the
path is made clear before u.s."
Great and many are the compensa-
tions of advancing age.
WHY THE Crow IS BLAcK.-The
Indians of the extreme Northwest
had some very remarkable legends
about the creation, in which the
crow takes the leading part, bring
ing order out of chaos. Perhaps
the most curious was that which ac-
counted for the raven coat of the
crow. One night, while making a
tour through his domirions, he stop
ped tthe house of Can-nook, a chief,
and begged for lodging and a drink
of water. Can-nook offered him a
bed, but on account of the scarcity of
water, refused to give him anything
to drink. When all the rest were
asleep the crow got up to hunt for
the water-butt, but was heard by
Can-nook's wife, who aroused her
husband. He, thinking that the
crow was about to escape, piled logs
of gum wood upon the fire. The
crow made desperate efforts to fly
through the hole in the roof where
the smoke escaped, but Can-nook
caused the smoke to be denser and
denser, and when the crow finally re-
gained the outer air he had black
plumage. 1t was previously white.-
American Magazine.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-12-08

CONSIDERING the loud Wailings of
many Kansas republicans over so-called
election frauds in the south, ii is re-
freshiag to glance over the dailies that
give accounts of fights, frauds, killing,
arrests and flights of judges and clerks,
bnrning of poll-books, kidnapping of
voters and officers, and so on and so
forth, that take place in Kansas these
days over county seat elections. 1t
leaves the southern Outrages away in
the lurch and gives our state a arip-roar-
ing reputation. And then, too, come
in lynchings every few weeks, kicking
colored children out of public schools
and the regular grists of suicides at
Topeka.-Paola Western Spirit.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-12-08
Churches.

VI h. CHURCH Z ierman eiy).-Prcaciing
every Sunday, at 7:50 p. M; also at 1880 a. n.
every other Sunday after Nov. u. Sabbath - hoOi
at2p. m. Prayer and praise service "Wednesday
evening at 73O.
CATHOLIC CHURCH-Seryices the second
fourth Sundays of each month. Mass commences
Rev. Father DIsSELcAMP, Pastor.
METHODIST EPISCOPALr-CornerF Forest avenue
and Morton street, ;. III. Enyeart. pastor Ser
day school at $50 a. m Young Peoples meeting
Tuesday evening, prayer meeting Thursday even
ing.
street, w. A. BOsw0rth, pastor. Services every
Sunday at 10 - a. and 9-5O m frayer 5r.eet-
ing Thursday night, young peoples meeting tues
day night; Sunday school at 11:45
PRESBYTERIAN-Corner Broadway and William
avene, J. w. Thompson. pastor Services every
Sunday II q. and 80 a. E's Sunday SehoOI
0:30 a. IN. Teachers meeting every wednesday
and prayer meeting Thursday evenings
LUTHERAH.-Scrviees at school bOuse first and
third Sunday of each mouth; Rev. Haerlng' pas
tor.
CHURCH--Services at the Court
House on the see0nd aud fourth Sunday ot every
month at IL O'Clock a. N Sunday school every
Sunday at p.
Preaching in the German NJ T. church
at IL a m each Second and r. urth Sundays
Cottage prayer meeting every "Wednesday evening
at 7:30
United Evanselieal-(New Lutheran
Services every Sabbath morning at II O'clock
'' VIM. Eehelneyer
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-12-08
The Kansas Press.

The recent discussion in the press OF
this State i'll reference to the duty and
interest of Kansas to foster home in
duStrieS and to contribute in building
up mercantile and manufacturing CEN
tres within the State, has done much to
turn the attention of the public in the
right direction. The cities and towns
of a State make the position which it
Will occupy abroad. They make home
markets for the products of the farmer.
They contribute largely to make the
assessment roll of the State and to re-
duce the rate of taxation. The cities
and towns of Kansas will be looked to
and pointed out with just pride by all
KansanS in future as part of their
own work. The healthy, invigorating
climate OF this State together with the
abundance of coal, and all other sur
roundings necessary to build up great
manufacturing centres Will i'll Il short
time build up within this State centers
of commerce and manufacture which
VIII Do Cic eIistI VI any Cldtc. Leu lIle
press of the State continue to be true to
its people and the beople will be true
to the press. Establish factories of all
kinds, let jobbing banks be established
and encouraged at all convenient CEN
ters for business, and Kansas, already
rich in her agricultural products. Will
ere long be one of the wealthiest States
in the Union. The energy of her peo-
pie is equal to the occasion when their
attention is called TO the Importance of
its accomplishments Sun.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-12-08
Caught a Tartar.

Two young bloods from Nickerson
attempted to put Great Bend boy
''to bed'' on something stronger than
water. Saturday night : but from their
delapitated appearance as the aforesaid
Great Bend boy was hauling them into
one of our hotels about the time the
electric lights were going out, they
must have concluded it would be a
colder day befor they again tackled a
depot dude. We mention no names.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-12-08

THE McCracken Enterprise tells of an
''artesian well'' which was bored near
the state line, on the Mo. Pacific. 1t
says, "a large body of water was found
at depth of 40 feet, which rises to
within sixty feet of the surface" This
may be MI. Newton's idea of ''won-
derful well'' 1--WE doubt, though, if he
knows much about water, but in Bar
ton county 20 foot well with only 10
feet of water in the bottom of it would
not be considered much of an ''artes-
ian'' concern.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-12-08
NUMBER SO.
Sad Fate Of A Joke.

An American joke sometimes loses
itself through translation into another
language A native humorist wrote:
Notwithstanding that lady should
always be quick and self-contained she
cannot ever enter place of worship
without a tremendous bustle.'' A
French writer reproduces it in this
form: According to an American
author the ladies of that country are
so greedy of notoriety that they cannot
enter the holy sanctuary without dis
turbing the kneeling worshipper with
their vulgar and unseemly ado. .''-Bing-
hampton Republican.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-12-08
CLARENCE JOTTINGS.

The snow saved our wheat.
10 degrees below zero Sunday morn
ing. Whew!
Mr.. Reuben Nelson has a new shep-
herd, X. 8.
L. Losthrow started for the .tB. I.
IT, two weeks ago.
+. Il. Henry came out from the Bend
last Saturday.
Mr.. Jurgensen went down to Ellin-
wood Monday, on business.
Henry Gagelman has applied a new
coat of paint to his house. Right.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Cline sojourned
in Larned for a few days since our last.
The supervisor is putting in new
culvert in front of G. Reeder's resi-
dence.
Miss Maggie Alberts has been quite
sick, but we are glad to say is now
convalescent.
Hops, spelling schools and literary
meetings are ''all the rage'' with Clar-
ence youth this winter.
Everybody should turn out and en-
gage in the photographic contest at No.
IL, next Friday night, and thereby have
a good time.
Saturdays blizzard had tendency
to make the festive wild goose HE him
to the Sunny South, and less villain
Gus atmosphere to seek.
lay no claims to being statesman,
but perhaps / can make suggestion to
those who are, on think they are, that
will he acceptable and appreciated.
The British government could settle
the vexatiOns Australian rabbit ques-
ton by engaging the services of Mr..
Daniel Bird for few days. lie has
shot nearly fifty jacks and cottontails
since our last writing. Next!
Dances have been of frequent occur
ence during the past winter in this
neiehborhOOd, but none have been so
thoroughly enjoyed as was the one at
Mr.. Jurgenson's place Friday night.
About twenty couples were present and
more would have come but for the bad
condition of the weather. Mr.. Green,
one of the musicians sandwiched seIec-
tions upon the violin between the sets,
among which was the knocking bird''
with variations, which alone was well
wOrtb going p,iles 20 hear.
B6cxEYE.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-12-08
The Shame OF Tt.

The christians in Jerusalem are in a.
state of bitter sectarian conflict. They
are not agreed among themselves as to
the sacred rites, and they have more
than once come to bloodsed in acting to-
gether i'll the celebration of some of the
christian festivals. In the cave of the
Nativity at Bethlehem, where a silver
star in the pavement marks the place
where our Lord is beliyed to have been
born. Mohammedan soldier of the
Turkish army stands, always with
loaded musket, to keep the christian
soldiers from Staying each other. In
the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in
Jerusalem, the travellers notice at once
a troup of Turkish officials who have no
interest in the place, and spend their
time in smoking, and drinking coffee
and chatting with each other, but whose
presence is needed to keep the monks
from actual warfare.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-12-08
ssThe Laplanders. -

1t certainly would be hard to con-
ceive of a more comical conglomera-
ton of curious condolences and side
splitting stage business than was wit
messed al the opera house Saturday
evening by goodly number of our
citizens. The company presenting
ga Cold Day, or The Laplanders"
certainly have taking combination,
and though there was no plot or
foundation to the play, other than
just enough to string together the
rapidly changing scenes, there was
more laugh in it to the square inch
than has been found in all the other
comedies we have witnessed this win
ter. Many a side ached during the
evening, and many a quiet laugh has
been INDUCED in since as we recalled
to mind the ludicrous sayings and
grotesque gestures.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-12-08
HARD PUSHED.

| 1t is amusing to see the straits to
which the republican party is being put
to decide upon man for a presidential
candidate. They have old sores to heal
up within themselves-old ulcers that
have been giving trouble from time to
time. and have only been temporarily
healed, to break ont anew upon their
diseased body polite and cause weak
ness i'll one limb OF the other which they
must repair; but they must set to nauglft
one of the best presidential administra-
tions ever known in the history of our
land.
The administration of President
Cleveland has been, and is, in perfect
harmony with the times ; it represents
the hopes and purposes of the present !;
it has proven that democratic methods
are good and reliable that an honest,
fearless, sturdy and untiring course of
management has won the confidence
and plaudits of a nation that will not
soon give over the reins of government
into the hands of the old tricksters
and manipulatOrs.
Hard indeed are they run to find d
man whom they can count upon to
hold the support of the entire re-
publican party-and the support of
every man in the party is what they
will have to have to make any sort of
showing in the campaign of 1888. The
young men, the active and unceasing
workers, have been won by President
older heads, the solid minds of the
day which have witnessed from year to
year the mlsta kes and Inconsistencies
of republican government, are bound
to respect and commend him.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-12-08
SoNIEBopY has calculated that thirty

SOMEBODY has calculated that thirty
two million of persons, clasping hands,
would girdle the earth. That would
be a useless girdling of misery and joy
mixed. Here is a more pleasing calcu-
lation: Given, a warm parlor on a
winters night; Il chair that will hold
two; Il neat waist that can be clasped
by two masculine arms, and yon have
a girdling that encompasses more pure
bliss, unalloyed with earthly troubles,
lin the opinion of the girdlerl than
would be bound by the thirty-two
million hands.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-12-08
FLY Away, Eddie /!

Some time ago playmate of little
Eddie Chapman, son of editor Chap
man, died named Charley, and short
ly after Eddie was in neighbor's
house and asked if good little boys
had wings when they died, and on be-
ing answered in the affirmative, the
little fellow said: "If / should die
I would go up to the burrying ground
and get Charlie and we'd both fly to
Kentucky and see my uncle Toni"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-12-08
&. A. X. El ectiOn.

At the meeting of Pap Thomas
Post, Grand Army of the Republic,
Saturday night, the following officers
were elected to serve the ensuing
year: John w. Clark, Post COM
mander; A. B. Miller, S. r.; D. F.
Robinson, j. r.; James E. Savage, of
ficer of the day; G. w. Mitchell,
quartermaster; Comrader Craig,
Chaplain. A big time is anticipated
at the installation of the above of
ficers during the first week in Jan
uary.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-12-08

1t amuses us to read in dozens OF our
papers-sOme of them the most miser-
able sheets-pieces that go the rounds
of these so-called journals periodically,
that town should support paper,
etc. ETC., and so on dd naatseunl. Why
don't you publish something that has a
claim to be called a newspaper? Give
the people paper and they will sup
port lido this or quit. Ii you cannot.
stop your whining. More than half the
fault lies i'll your own incompetency.-
Kinsley Mercury.
THAT is our idea, exactly, Mr.. -Ner-
cauy. If the people don't see any merit
in a paper they should not support it.
But, where did you get the above item?
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-12-08

GREAT BEND LODGE, NO. 10, A. +. 4 A. NJ.
Meets every second ard fourth Friday eveninRin
each month o. j. RICHARDS, w. NJ.
NJ. CARAwAY, Sec'y.
VALLEY LODGE, NO. 80, 1. o. o. F.-AIeets every
Wednesday evening.
IRA ID. BRoUGHER, n. G..
CHAs RoZELL, Sec'y.
ZARAH ENCASIPNIENT, NO. 35.-Meets every
second and fourth Monday evening.
4. Z. EwALT, G. j.
CHAs. RoZELL, Sec'y.
CLARA BARTON REBECCA DEGREE LODGE,
NO.-.-Meets every first and third Tuesday
evening of each month.
Mrs. ED. TYLER, y. G.
Mrs. c. RozELL, Sec'y-
PAP THOMAS POST, NO. 52, G. A. R.-Meets
every first and thild Saturday at g. a. X. Hall.
g. n. MOSES, Post Commander. .
a. G.. ScHERMERHORE, AdJt.
PAP THOMAS w. r. {. No. &c, meets regularly
every 1st and Sd Saturdays at IN of the month
in Odd Fellows hall. l.. f. Typer, 3 " +.
WOODLAND LODGE No. 81 X. of P.-Meets
Thursday Of each week.
ID. a. BASTA, C. c.
{. NJ. MOSES. X. Of X. ).
GREAT BEND DIVISION No %, u. r. K. OF T.
meets Wednesday night OF each week.
c. +. CULVER, S. X. G.
o V. DODGE, s. X r.
a. o. L. .W.-Meeis at Odd Fellows Hall every FRI
day evening.
4. J. BuCkland, Sec.